**Exhibit 3.1**

AMENDED AND RESTATEDARTICLES OF INCORPORATION

OF

IMMUCOR, INC.

Restated as ofSeptember 7, 2006

FIRST:  The name of the corporation is IMMUCOR, INC.

SECOND:  The corporation is organized pursuant to theprovisions of the Georgia Business Corporation Code.

THIRD:  The period of its duration is perpetual.

FOURTH:  The purpose or purposes for which thecorporation is organized are:

All lawful purposes,including, but not limited to, manufacturing and sale of diagnostic blood bankreagents.

FIFTH: The corporation shall have authority,exercisable by its Board of Directors to issue not more than 120,000,000 sharesof common voting stock of $.10 par value per share (the “Common Stock”).

The corporation shallhave the authority to acquire shares of its capital stock out of its unreservedand unrestricted earned surplus and capital surplus available therefor asotherwise provided by law.

SIXTH:  The corporation will not commence businessuntil it has received the sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00) asconsideration for the issuance of shares.

SEVENTH:  No shareholder of this corporation shall byreason of his holding shares of any class have any preemptive or preferentialright to purchase or subscribe to any shares of any class of this corporation,now or hereafter to be authorized, or any notes, debentures, bonds, or othersecurities convertible into or carrying options or warrants to purchase sharesof any class, now or hereafter to be authorized.

EIGHTH:  The personal liability of a director of the corporationto the corporation or its shareholders for monetary damages for breach of dutyof care or other duty as a director shall be limited to an amount not exceedingsaid director’s compensation for services as a director during the twelve-monthperiod immediately preceding such breach, except that a director’s liabilityshall not be so limited for

(i)                                     anyappropriation, in violation of the director’s duties, of any businessopportunity of the corporation,

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(ii)                                  actsor omissions which involved intentional misconduct or a knowing violation oflaw,

(iii)                               liabilityunder Section 14-2-832 (or any successor provision or redesignation thereof) ofthe Georgia Business Corporation Code, and

(iv)                              anytransaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit.

For purposes ofthis Article Eighth, a director’s compensation for serving as a director shallnot include amounts received as reimbursement for expenses, or for services asan officer, employee or agent.

Ifat any time the Georgia Business Corporation Code shall have been amended toauthorize the further elimination or limitation of the liability of a director,then the liability of each director of the corporation shall be eliminated orlimited to the fullest extent permitted by such Code, as so amended, withoutfurther action by the shareholders, unless the provisions of the GeorgiaBusiness Corporation Code, as amended, require further action by theshareholders.

Any repeal ormodification of the foregoing provisions of this Article Eighth shall notadversely affect the elimination or limitation of liability or allegedliability of any director of the corporation pursuant to Article Eighth as ineffect prior to such repeal or modification, for or with respect to any acts oromissions of such director prior to such repeal or modification.

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CERTIFICATE

The undersigned,being the Assistant Secretary of Immucor, Inc., a Georgia corporation (the “Corporation”),does hereby certify pursuant to Section 14-2-1007(d) of the Georgia BusinessCorporation Code (the “Code”) that the Restated Articles of Incorporation havebeen adopted by the Board of Directors of the Corporation and that the fulltext of the Restated Articles of Incorporation are attached hereto in theirentirety.  The undersigned further certifiesthat:

1.                                       Article V of the Articles of Amendmenthad been amended to increase from 45,000,000 shares to 60,000,000 shares thenumber of shares of Common Voting Stock of $.10 par value per share of theCorporation which the Corporation is authorized to issue.  This amendment was duly adopted by the Boardof Directors of the Corporation on September 3, 2004 in accordance with Section14-2-1003 of the Code, and duly approved by the Shareholders of the Corporationat the annual meeting of Shareholders held on November 10, 2004.

2.                                       Article V of the Articles of Amendmenthas been further amended to increase from 60,000,000 shares to 120,000,000shares the number of shares of Common Voting Stock of $.10 par value per shareof the Corporation which the Corporation is authorized to issue.  This amendment was duly adopted by the Boardof Directors of the Corporation on August 23, 2005 in accordance with Section14-2-1003 of the Code, and duly approved by the Shareholders of the Corporationat the annual meeting of Shareholders held on December 13, 2005.

3.                                       The Amended and Restated Articles wereadopted by the Corporation in the manner prescribed by the Code.  The Amended and Restated Articles accuratelyrestate the Articles of Incorporation of the Corporation and amendmentsexisting immediately prior to the adoption of the accompanying Amended andRestated Articles.

INWITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Certificate on January 2,2006.
|        | /s/ Philip H.  Moïse |   |
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|   | Philip H. Moïse      |
|   | Assistant  Secretary      |

 

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